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This Orwellian vision draws scalding scorn from the liberal economists. "Do you mathematicians expect to be able to see from the main computing center," asks Ivan Malyshev, deputy chief of the Central Statistical Administration, "all our vast territory from the cold rocks of Murmansk to the flaming sun of Kolkhida in the Caucasus, to see how people sow and reap, how every chemical complex functions, how every machine operates? If something goes wrong in Khabarovsk, can you merely press a button and straighten things out? A strange Utopia. Society is not the sum of mathematical zeros and digits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Borrowing from the Capitalists | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

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